Programs

Media women standing up to power
28 Jan, 2019 | 0:28:46 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
Velvet Revolution is a documentary about women in media reporting on corruption and human rights and facing repercussions. Nupur Basu from India was the Executive Producer of this award-wining film, which was commissioned by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television in 2017. Nupur, who lives in India, coordinated six directors from Asia, Africa, the Pacific and North...

One of the first electrical appliances ever marketed
09 Dec, 2018 | 0:28:44 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
In 1999, historian of technology Rachel Maines published The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. By 2011, this history had spawned a documentary, a play, and a feature film. Program features a humorous but scientific talk by Maines, followed by excerpts from a press conference about Hysteria.

Cherchez les femmes!
27 Nov, 2018 | 0:28:49 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
What do you learn when you pay attention to the women embroiled with the action around torture, imperialism and war? Dr. Cynthia Enloe, a scholar of Political Science and Women's Studies, has made a career around this question. Among her many books are Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link; Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Womens Lives; The Curious...

About Beyond Crisis, a documentary film that calls us to action on climate change.
31 Jul, 2018 | 0:28:08 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
Kai Reimer-Watts is a filmmaker and a community activist based in Waterloo, Ontario. His first feature-length documentary is Beyond Crisis, "a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada, the U.S. and beyond." Scott Neigh interviews him about climate...

UFO Talk Show
10 Mar, 2018 | 0:58:38 |EN |
Mark O'Connor |
The Probe
This 10th episode is the final episode of Season 1 of The Probe. Collectively the 10 episodes make for a good summer replacement show or an occasional replacement program. In this show our intrepid explorers of UFO cases takes on the Kaikoura lights case from New Zealand, a 1978 incident where a news team actually filmed the UFO following the...

UFO Talk Show
04 Mar, 2018 | 0:56:16 |EN |
Mark O'Connor |
The Probe
In the penultimate episode of Season ! of The Probe Bob, Mark and Ed delve into the "British Roswell" the Rendlesham case including actual audio recorded during the event. They then take on the movie Paul which seeming incorporates every possible UFO cultural reference there is in a single film. Musical selections of Debussey.

UFO Talk Show
19 Jan, 2018 | 0:57:41 |EN |
Mark O'Connor |
The Probe
This episode includes an interview with Ryan Stacey of MUFON Canada, discussion of the Allagash UFO Incident in Northeastern Maine a stone's throw from the Canadian border, and a chat about the episode Duane Barry of the X-Files.

Reza Sholeh talks about his current projects
16 Jan, 2018 | 1:04:49 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
Reza Sholeh is an actor, writer, director and producer based in Toronto. He talks about his lead role in Detainee X, his documentary Passport Control, and Season 2 of Petrol

Johnathon Schaech, Lauren Wolkstein & Christopher Radcliff, Cyrus
05 Jan, 2018 | 0:58:50 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
Johnathon Schaech is an actor, having appeared in numerous films since getting his big break in the Tom Hanks directed picture "That Thing You Do". In addition, he wrote and starred in a sequel to the classic film Road House, has appeared in four films with Bruce Willis, and is currently starring in "Day of the Dead" Bloodline. Lauren Wolkstein...

A civil courts approach
04 Dec, 2017 | 0:28:50 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
In a 1993 address to a law conference, attorney Catharine Mackinnon stated that aggressive and violent porn harm not only the subjects abused to make it but also porn consumers, who experience "primitive conditioning" and "unconscious mental intrusion and physical manipulation" to objectify women and sex. A model ordinance she co-wrote would have allowed porn victims to sue for damages,...

Navjeet Sidhu and Scott MacDonald talk about the Canadian Labour International Film Festival.
14 Nov, 2017 | 0:28:11 |EN |
Scott Neigh |
Talking Radical Radio
On this week's epoisode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Navjeet Sidhu and Scott MacDonald. They are board members of the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF), an event that brings films about work, workers, and working-class struggle to cities and towns across the country every November. One of the things that can be really striking when you begin...

Jerry Rothwell, Josh Winstead, Jim Lynch
27 Nov, 2016 | 0:58:40 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker whose past films include Donor Unknown - which follows a young woman's search to find her sperm-donor father, How To Change The World - about the creation of Green Peace, and Heavy Load - a group of adults with learning disabilities form a punk band. His latest is Sour Grapes, a tale of the...

NFB Gun Runners Movie: Interview with star Julius Arile and writer/director Anjali Nayar
03 Oct, 2016 | 0:09:33 |EN |
culture |
Prior to the release of the NFB film Gun Runners CKUT's Djenaba Dayle was able to sit down with star Julius Arile and writer/director Anjali Nayar. This film took 10 years to complete and is the story of two world class marathon runners. The film follows Julius Arile and Robert Matanda, both of whom had been given the opportunity to...

A mysterious moment in the film Suffragette explained
18 Sep, 2016 | 0:28:49 |EN |
Frieda Werden |
WINGS
In the British film Suffragette, a man pockets the Votes for Women sash that Emily Wilding Davison had been trying to put on the King's horse during the race. She was killed and became a martyr for the cause. A century later the sash turned up on public display at the British Parliament house, when Davison was finally honoured by...

Oscar nominees Ciro Guerra, Adam Benzine, Hamish Purdy
24 Feb, 2016 | 1:01:01 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
Ciro Guerra is the director of "Embrace of the Serpent", nominated in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. The first film ever nominated from Columbia, it is a black and white story set in the Amazon jungle about an indigenous shaman and his relationship with two scientists. It a fictional re-telling of the life of two scientists - German...

Actor John Emmet Tracy, Tacocat
06 Jan, 2016 | 0:58:00 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
John Emmet is a Vancouver-based actor who has appeared in numerous shows including "Supernatural", "Sanctuary", "Smallville" "Fringe" "The Killing" among countless others. He also has appeared on the big screen in "American Mary" and "If I Stay". He has also appeared on stage at the Globe Theatre in Stratford and on stage in Tokyo as Hamlet. Tacocat is a surf-pop...

Actress & Musician Jill Hennessy, Actress Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson
31 Dec, 2015 | 1:00:00 |EN |
Dan McPeake |
Endeavours
Jill Hennessy has had a long career in television with roles in Law & Order, Crossing Jordan, Luck, Jo, and now Madame Secretary. She also appeared in such film as Chutney Popcorn, Dead Ringers, Lymelife and Wild Hogs. She has long been established as a singer-songwriter and recently her second solo album, I Do. Felicia Pearson is an actress who...